Art History for Dummies - Jesse Bryant Wilder

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Résumé :

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 2

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Art History 5

Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages 7

Connecting Art Divisions and Culture 8

It's Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? 8

Mesopotamian period (3500 bc-500 bc) and Egyptian period (3100 bc-332 bc) 9

Ancient Greek period (c 850 bc-323 bc) and Hellenistic period (323 bc-32 bc) 9

Roman period (300 bc-ad 476) 9

Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? 10

Byzantine period (ad 500-ad 1453) 10

Islamic period (seventh century+) 10

Medieval period (500-1400) 10

High Renaissance (1495-1520) and Mannerism (1530-1580) 10

Baroque period (1600-1750) and Rococo period (1715-1760s) 11

In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? 11

Neoclassicism (1765-1830) 11

Romanticism (late 1700s-early 1800s) 11

The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror 12

Responding to modern pressures 12

Conceptualizing the craft 13

Expressing mixed-up times 13

Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means 15

Focusing on the Artist's Purpose 15

Recording religion, ritual, and mythology 15

Promoting politics and propaganda 16

When I say jump: Art made for patrons 16

Following a personal vision 17

Detecting Design 17

Perceiving pattern 17

Rolling with the rhythm 17

Weighing the balance 17

Looking for contrast 18

Examining emphasis 18

Decoding Meaning 19

The ABCs of visual narrative 19

Sorting symbols 19

Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements 21

Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement 21

Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements 22

Realism (1840s-1880s) 22

Impressionism (1869-late 1880s) 22

Post-Impressionism (1886-1892) 22

Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century 23

Fauvism and Expressionism 23

Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism 24

Abstract Expressionism (1946-1950s) 25

Pop Art (1960s) 25

Conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art (late 1960s-1970s) 25

Postmodernism (1970-) 25

Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art 27

Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists 29

Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? 30

Hunting on a wall 31

Psychedelic shamans with paintbrushes 31

Flirting with Fertility Goddesses 32

Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture 33

Living in the New Stone Age: ?atalh?y?k, G?bekli Tepe, and Skara Brae 33

Cracking the mystery of the megaliths and menhirs 34

Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art 37

Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture 38

Zigzagging to Heaven: Ziggurats 38

The Tower of Babel 39

The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 39

Worshipping graven images 40

Stare-down with God: Statuettes from Abu Temple 40

Playing Puabi's Lyre 41

Unraveling the Standard of Ur 42

Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art 43

Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi's Code 43

Unlocking Assyrian Art 44

Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon 45

Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art 47

Ancient Egypt 101 48

Segmenting the Egyptian periods 48

Thanking the Nile 49

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Biographie:

Jesse Bryant Wilder is the founder, publisher, and editor of NEXUS, a series of interdisciplinary textbooks used in high schools around the country. He has written several textbooks on art and art history and was an art critic for The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com.